White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a solo exhibition of Anselm Kiefer.
Now open, June 25th to August 16th, 2025, White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a solo exhibition spotlighting Anselm Kiefer’s works, many of which are being shown publicly for the first time. The selection includes large-scale paintings and an extraordinary glass vitrine created over the past six years in the artist’s studio in France.
In this selection of recent works, Anselm Kiefer rekindles an artistic kinship first ignited in his youth, paying homage to the landscapes of Vincent van Gogh. Although more than a century separates the two artists, Kiefer – like Van Gogh – approaches the landscape as a resonant site of artistic and philosophical enquiry, where the material presence of paint serves as both medium and agent, summoning a poetics of remembrance, affect, and metaphysical reflection.
Kiefer’s engagement with the Dutch master traces back to a formative journey he undertook in 1963 at the age of 18, following in Van Gogh’s footsteps through Europe – from the Netherlands to Belgium, Paris, and finally to Arles, where, in the final years of his life, Van Gogh created many of his most iconic works. These are the very paintings Kiefer illuminates through his own visionary idiom. In the body of work exhibited at Mason’s Yard, notable affinities emerge between the two artists, evident in their shared investment in landscape as a site of existential thought and emotional richness, and in their commitment to a sensorially expressive painterly language. These commonalities, far from eliding difference, render legible their distinct artistic sensibilities.
This powerful new chapter of Anselm Kiefer works intersects with another major event: Kiefer / Van Gogh, the highly anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Together, these shows offer a profound dialogue between two artists—separated by centuries, united by a shared emotional intensity. The Kiefer / Van Gogh theme enriches the White Cube presentation by highlighting Vincent van Gogh’s enduring influence on Kiefer’s material and conceptual approach.